Liza Minelli Quotes


"Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway."
- Liza Minelli
"If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Time, Mother, Talk, Talking)

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Growing up, Parents)

"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Business, May, Public, Reality)

"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Fear, Tomorrow, Yesterday)

"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Mother, Father, Artist)

"You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Work, Dream, First, Want)

"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Disease, Help)

"I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Possibilities, World)

"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Work)

"I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Death, Friend)

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Growing up, Hollywood)

"Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: World)

"And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Time, People, Acting, Project, Trying)

"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Dreams, Mother, Father, Future)

"So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world."
- Liza Minelli
(Related: Family, Dance, World)